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Transcript
I’m often asked what advice I would give
to young people who are just starting
in this best of all possible worlds.
If you love what you do, and you really,
really want to do it, then embrace it with all your heart
because some great good fortune is going to pass
under your nose when you least expect it.
Hello, I’m Julie Andrews
and this is a timeline of my career.
My career began at quite a young age, really.
My school closed because of the war, World War II,
and my mother and my stepfather for some crazy reason
decided to give me some singing lessons.
My step dad was in vaudeville and my mother was a pianist
and she played the piano for him and they had an act,
toured all over England.
To their surprise, they found out that I had
a kind of freaky adult larynx
and could sing all kinds of coloratura songs
and it wasn’t long before I became part of their act.
At the age of about 10, I began climbing on a box
to sing beside them on stage and then at 12,
I had my first sort of main break in London.
And that night was very successful for me
because I don’t think the press had ever heard
such a freaky four octave voice in such a young kid before.
But it was the beginning of all the rest, really.
